Monday, October 9, 2023

Five Highlights From The Comics Journal #39



THE COMICS JOURNAL #39 (APRIL 1978)

5. CLASSIFIED AD from Joel Milke
We featured an advertisement by Milke in an earlier installment of this series, he was a very early comix self-publisher and obviously an original art collector.
Just for fun here's a 1977 comic from Joel Milke (with George Erling) archived on Poopsheet Foundation by Rick Bradford...

4. THE SAN FRANCISCO COMIX SCENE by Clay Geerdes
A three page history of the origins of Underground Comix and how so many disparate artists ended up in San Francisco in the late 60s. Three photos by Clay accompany the article.
Bonus: A Close Encounters of the Third Kind movie review in Blood 'n Thunder...

3. MARILYN BETHKE WATCH
Her savage takedown of Jim Steranko's MEDIASCENE...

2. THE DEATH OF UNCLE WALT by Jim Korkis (1950-2023) 

1. NEWSWATCH
The Alternative Comics Publishers section includes a lot of Underground Comix new releases (presumably information provided by an uncredited Clay Geerdes), undergrounds were at least artistically at a high point in 1978...

images from GCD and lastgasp.com

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